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inscription suggests that Maues conquered Gandhara, including Pushkalavati to the west and Taxila to the east of the Indus River. But in the eastern Punjab the conquests of Maues remained to be completed by two of his successors, the first of whom was Azes I.^[1] This king associated with himself one Azilises, who eventually succeeded him.^[2] The arrange-

scythes," Rev. num., 3. sér., VI (1888), 8–52; A. Cunningham, Coins of the Indo-Scythians (London, 1892), reprinted from Num. Chron., 1888, pp. 199–248; 1889, pp. 268–311; 1890, pp. 103–72; 1892, pp. 40–82 and 98–159; Rapson, "Indian Coins," in G. Bühler, Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, II 3, Heft B (Strassburg, 1897); V. A. Smith, Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Vol. I (Oxford, 1906); J. H. Marshall, "Excavations at Taxila," Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1912/13, pp. 1–52; Richard B. Whitehead, Catalogue of Coins in the Panjab Museum, Lahore. I. Indo-Greek Coins (Oxford, 1914).

↑ J. H. Marshall, "The Date of Kanishka," JRAS, 1914, p. 986, followed by Rapson in CHI, I, 570 f., makes Azes the founder of the Vikrama era in 58 b.c. L. de la Vallée-Poussin, L'Inde aux temps des Mauryas, p. 267, places his death in that year. On the inscriptional evidence see A. F. Hoernle, "Readings from the Arian Pâli," Indian Antiquary, X (1881), 324–31; G. Bühler, "Taxila Plate of Patika," Epig. Ind., IV (1896/97), No. 5, pp. 54–57; A. M. Boyer, "L'Inscription en Kharoṣṭhī du 15 Āṣāḍha 136," JA, 11. sér., V (1915), 281–98; Sten Konow, "Taxila Inscription of the Year 136," Epig. Ind., XIV (1917/18), No. 20, pp. 284–95; Ramaprasad Chanda, "Taxila Inscription of the Year 136," JRAS, 1920, pp. 319–24; Konow, "The So-called Takht-i-Bahi Inscription of the Year 103," Epig. Ind., XVIII (1925/26), No. 28, pp. 261–82; Konow, "The Zeda Inscription of the Year 11," Epig. Ind., XIX (1927/28), No. 1, pp. 1–15; Konow in CII, II 1, pp. lxxxii–xciv and 1 ff.; Konow, "Notes on Indo-Scythian Chronology," Journ. of Indian History, XII (1933), 1–46.
↑ Konow, "The so-called Takht-i-Bahi Inscription," pp. 273 f., suggested that Azes and Azilises were the same person; but he now rejects this idea in his "Notes on Indo-Scythian Chronology," p. 24. Cf. for evi-

[1] J. H. Marshall, "The Date of Kanishka," JRAS, 1914, p. 986, followed by Rapson in CHI, I, 570 f., makes Azes the founder of the Vikrama era in 58 b.c. L. de la Vallée-Poussin, L'Inde aux temps des Mauryas, p. 267, places his death in that year. On the inscriptional evidence see A. F. Hoernle, "Readings from the Arian Pâli," Indian Antiquary, X (1881), 324–31; G. Bühler, "Taxila Plate of Patika," Epig. Ind., IV (1896/97), No. 5, pp. 54–57; A. M. Boyer, "L'Inscription en Kharoṣṭhī du 15 Āṣāḍha 136," JA, 11. sér., V (1915), 281–98; Sten Konow, "Taxila Inscription of the Year 136," Epig. Ind., XIV (1917/18), No. 20, pp. 284–95; Ramaprasad Chanda, "Taxila Inscription of the Year 136," JRAS, 1920, pp. 319–24; Konow, "The So-called Takht-i-Bahi Inscription of the Year 103," Epig. Ind., XVIII (1925/26), No. 28, pp. 261–82; Konow, "The Zeda Inscription of the Year 11," Epig. Ind., XIX (1927/28), No. 1, pp. 1–15; Konow in CII, II 1, pp. lxxxii–xciv and 1 ff.; Konow, "Notes on Indo-Scythian Chronology," Journ. of Indian History, XII (1933), 1–46.

[p64-2] Konow, "The so-called Takht-i-Bahi Inscription," pp. 273 f., suggested that Azes and Azilises were the same person; but he now rejects this idea in his "Notes on Indo-Scythian Chronology," p. 24. Cf. for evi-

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